For Elijah Curtis, going to work is not like work at all. He is employed as the head cook at Hodgdon Green, an elder home in Damariscotta, but Curtis has spent the last two years building deeper relationships with the residents and his co-workers.

With jurisdiction across the county, the long brown-clad arm of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office provides primary law enforcement coverage to 15 of the county’s towns and supplemental coverage to the four towns with municipal police departments.

An electrical short in a lamp is cited as the cause of a fire at 122 Foye Rd. in Wiscasset Oct. 14. Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry reported the fire was out by the time his department arrived on the scene. According to Merry, the house was full of residual smoke.

A Bristol man has pleaded guilty to felony aggravated driving to endanger in connection with a 2011 car accident that seriously injured a Bristol woman.

An O.W. Holmes Inc. construction crew has unearthed a 19th century millstone in the foundation of the Varney Bridge on Redonnett Mill Road in Bristol Mills.

The former Hockomock Bottling Company building on Route 32 in Bremen will soon be demolished to make way for a new shellfish processing plant. The plant will be an expansion of current operations by local processor Community Shellfish LLC.

A one-in-10-million orange lobster briefly resided in a tank at Pemaquid Lobster & Seafood after crawling into a trap off New Harbor a month ago.

At its next meeting, the Wiscasset High School All-Sports Boosters will hear concerns from a parent about the possible mishandling of funds by one of the club’s members.

The Bank of Maine will close its Newcastle banking center in January.

Sheriff Todd Brackett reports the following:

On Sept. 26, Deputy Matthew Day took a report of the theft of a road sign “Meadow Lane” in the Bristol area. It will cost approximately $20 to replace the sign.

Little did the town of Wiscasset know that when Joe Cotter, the owner of National Resources in Greenwich, Conn., purchased the Mason Station property in 2004, the town would find itself mired in a legal battle as a direct result of the sale.

A Damariscotta couple who New Jersey authorities accuse of defrauding investors responded to the charges in a Sept. 3 interview with The Lincoln County News.

Material ready for shipment to Guatemala has been seized along with the contents of the building and property of Mason Station.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and bronze medal paralympian rower Rob Jones is cycling across the country in an effort to raise $1 million dollars for three charities that support wounded and ailing veterans.